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Halo: Reach |OT5| A Monument to All Our Sins
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Thagomizer
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Plywood said:
Tell me more.
Shogun by James Clavell. Really excellent book, but make sure you have some time to dedicate to it; my copy is 1210 pages(!!) of teeny-tiny type, and the plot and scheming of the characters (and there are a lot of characters and schemes) is very complex. I felt like I should have been keeping notes as I read it.
i nerini del buio
Member
TrounceX said:
so you're basically saying that without bloom the game would be better
you're not very consistent
i nerini del buio
Member
I have the right to complain if I want tosenador said:
That "you complain because you suck" stuff was really uncalled for
Hitmonchan107
Member
I hate my writing style these days. My articles are intolerably dull. But I'm tempted to write two different versions of what the panel wants me to write: a traditional journalistic take and a colorful community piece.Hypertrooper said:
I'm okay with constructive criticism, but getting mocked in front of an audience makes me hesitant. If I'm up for a tall order of public embarrassment that day, I'll go.
I hear there's a certain company that's inviting you to join.Steelyuhas said:
Uh-oh.FyreWulff said:
darthbob said:
hi5
Order:
black on green for myself (I fucking love green. I will freely admit that I prefer my Halo 3 360 for it's color more than the fact that it's a Halo 360)
white on black for first bro
white on purple for second bro (vikings fan, this was easy)
red on yellow for youngest bro (yellow is his favorite color)
My very first one-shot hit the tiny spot on the edge of a fully open reticule where his head was (out of the dozens of spots it could've hit) while Instinct's Roy and Pistola missed what seemed like 20 one-shots on me. As glad as I was at the time, that's just garbage.senador said:
("one-shot" in this post is referring to the shots after the opponent's shields are down)
Letters said:
Thagomizer
Member
Plywood said:
It's really interesting how these characters do really despicable things- English sailors and Japanese warlords in the 1600's don't really jive with modern morality- but we still root for them anyway. For example, about a third of the way though,
Toranaga escapes a rival daimyo by dressing up as his wife and escaping in a litter. However, to do so, he leaves his wife, pregnant mistress, and best lieutenant behind, knowing that they probably won't be allowed to leave the castle alive. He basically thinks, "Well, can't win them all" and goes on his way. And this is one of the more reasonable, moral characters in the book.
It also has some hilarious insults. You black-eyed son of a shit-festered whore.
Deputy Moonman
Member
fixed that for you.xxjuicesxx said:
i nerini del buio said:
Sorry if it came off that way or if I seem condescending.
The part that sets me off the most is when I read this thread to see the same complaints almost every day. Most are valid. The bloom is random and inconsistent complaint is not as black and white as HaloGAF makes it out to be. There are tricks that help make the bloom more consistent. I wouldn't even have posted if that GIF didn't coincidentally show exactly how! I'm trying to offer helpful advice but you guys just laugh or call bullshit.
Devolution
Member
TrounceX said:
I wouldn't think it's bullshit, I'd just laugh at how much more work you'd have to do just to make a broken mechanic a bit more consistent. I hope Halo 4 just axes that shit.
ncsuDuncan
Member
WE_HAVE_TO_GO_DEEPER.jpgDeputy Moonman said:
Fixed.darthbob said:
That's the HBO shirt I bought. Really I only picked that because I don't have very many purple shirts. (I am NOT a vikings fan.) Already have a ton of black/white/gray/green ones and I'm not a fan of yellow or pink. I have a TON of red shirts, but there are reasons for that. (Avatar quote.)FyreWulff said:
Eh, I still agree, even in the light of this most recent discussion (that I'm kind of glad I missed).Letters said:
Devolution still deserves props for making HaloGAF a little more personable (even if I was worried about the direction it was going
).Maybe I'm just looking forward to meeting some of this community at PAX and it's blinding me. I don't care.
Steelyuhas
Member
Sorry to those I was playing with. The house interwebz died for a couple of minutes. Not sure what happened. Got back on, played a game of rumble pit. It showed me quite clearly how terribad the AR, grenades, and pistol nerf is. Then, I decided to play Firefight. Teammates lag out two minutes into the game. It's Arcadefight on Glacier, bad gametype, bad map.
The Halo gods have clearly told me not to play lol.
A Bad Company?
The Halo gods have clearly told me not to play lol.
Hitmonchan107 said:
A Bad Company?
To be honest it was unfair to expect a change in behavior from people who didn't post a photo, didn't look at other members photos, or simply couldn't care less about the whole thing.ncsuDuncan said:Eh, I still agree. Even in the light of this most recent discussion (that I'm kind of glad I missed). Devolution still deserves props for making HaloGAF a little more personable (even if I was worried about the direction it was going
Maybe I'm just looking forward to meeting some of this community at PAX and it's blinding me. I don't care.
Between the people who showed their face though, it's all hugs and tickles from now on. Inspector gadget! <3
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Gotta counter my BKness being using to prove a point against bloom in a series of posts by half of halogaf (worth it) with reposting some old gifs I managed to find where I display some skill, because damn, my humility can only take so much:
yep, feel better now
I just lost a game of
slayer.
http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/gamestats.aspx?gameid=751629796&player=I%20Tunavi%20I
However, it was one of the most fun games that I have lost. Sprint only is awesome. Didn't feel cheated out of a win because they didn't use armor abilities. I wish there were more Sprint only gametypes.
flag
http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/gamestats.aspx?gameid=751629796&player=I%20Tunavi%20I
However, it was one of the most fun games that I have lost. Sprint only is awesome. Didn't feel cheated out of a win because they didn't use armor abilities. I wish there were more Sprint only gametypes.
Im_So_Pringles
Member
CLEANSED: http://www.bungie.net/stats/reach/gamestats.aspx?gameid=751543921&player=XI MA3LS7ROM IX
Great games Devo, Tunavi, Bread, and other guy who I don't know.
EDIT: I did terrible that game. All the kills were being snatched up before I could get any!
Great games Devo, Tunavi, Bread, and other guy who I don't know.
EDIT: I did terrible that game. All the kills were being snatched up before I could get any!
xxjuicesxx
Member
Deputy Moonman said:
Ughh Day 4: Do nothing because I just fixed Reach. Eat pizza and play Xbox.
MrBig said:
More specifically Forge World maps aswell as Tempest. You can't see objects/weapons or details/textures until you are 5 feet away from them. The more players the worse it gets, and it's totally unacceptable. I'm surprised more people don't complain about it. My friends and I have been doing custom game lan parties weekly since Halo 1 and this has never been an issue until Reach. We pretty much abandoned Reach for Custom games because the shipped maps are meh and forge world maps are unplayable in splitscreen.
Zoolader said:
As the amount of dynamic objects increases, the game must be more aggressive in splitscreen with LOD and view distance to keep the 360 from catching on fire. Hence why they made the system where Reach autogenerates the different LOD models and the Imposter system.
Which will be interesting if Bungie is truly making a single screen MMO, as it'll be the first Bungie game in 10 years that wasn't designed to accomodate 4 player split for multiplayer.
An actual geometry editor would help somewhat, but you'd still have to be very aggressive with any objects you place on the map itself, like trees/rocks/buildings.
I remember Halo 2 was aggressive with certain objects, where it'd start fading out rocks on Containment that were farther away from the middle (the ones around the camo) in single screen. Fusion coils were yellow bricks in split. Halo 3 was a lot better about it since the disc maps barely had any Forge objects and Sandbox was budget capped so you couldn't even really make a map that would push the game engine.
Cue Reach and Bungie giving us enough budget to do what we want, regardless of performance, and you end up with maps that should only be played in up to 2 player split but there's no mechanism to limit a map to a certain local player count.
And they have to keep the framerate up in 4 player split because it'll be a very bad day for everyone involved if the 4 player box is the host and it's only simulating the game at 15 frames per second :lol
One feature I'm surprised they didn't add from Far Cry 2 is the Performance meter that displays when you're walking around the map in play mode. That would have been nice to get the engine's opinion on your map's performance.
As an aside, I'd still like to see 343 attempt a "Team Mercenaries" playlist. Where it's teams but limited to party sizes of 1. This playlist could have some of the more performance intensive community Forge World maps in it as a result.
Devolution
Member
Making shit talkers ragequit. One of the few delicious parts of this game.
xxjuicesxx
Member
Devolution said:
Your mom is so dumb she pulled the flag when her team was 3 dead and the other team was all alive.
Deputy Moonman
Member
Boom roasted!xxjuicesxx said:
FyreWulff said:
I somewhat understand but I feel Bungie sacrificed too much and screwed over some of the original custom games community. From doing my own testing, aside from frame rate drops it doesn't matter if I have 10 objects or 100, things still don't materialize until you are right in front of them while in splits-screen. I'm not sure if it would make a difference but I'd rather have Forge World cut in half or have an editor more like Far Cry 2. What was stopping Bungie from having an editor on the PC, it would be much better and could have avoided this problem right? It could be that I'm just super pissed this wasn't brought to my attention til after I spent 30+ hours on a map, or it could be it's a damn shame I can't even make a simple map and play it split-screen with friends without them bitching about N64 graphics.
Kibbles said:
I didn't want to sound like too much of a whiner, but that's also a HUGE factor.
Zoolader said:
What'd be mostly stopping a PC based editor would have been Bungie's manpower to support it (and now 343's manpower) and Microsoft's willingness to allow people to play on maps via XNA.
I wish MS would let people use XNA to make Halo maps on console, seeing as how it seems they barely want to spend any money to commission Bungie or Certain Affinity to make maps as it is. It'd be neato if Halo could get something like the Rock Band Network but with maps.
Hitmonchan107
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You should've been there. It was glorious.Steelyuhas said: